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Dear all, Booking for the conference 'Under Control', University of Warwick, 19 May 2016, will close soon. The deadline to register online is the 1st May. Click here for registration (top right of the page) and further information. Below, you can find a short description and the updated conference programme. Under Control. Childhood and Twentieth Century Dictatorships (1917-1991) Thursday 19th May 2016, University of Warwick Since the early Nineteenth century, childhood has been viewed as both a privileged condition for creative inspiration and a decisive phase in the development of adult subjectivity. Such centrality of childhood acquired particular importance in the Twentieth century, when political systems – and especially authoritarian regimes – began to understand children as a crucial national resource and tried to exercise influence on them. The conference will bring together scholars from multiple backgrounds to explore mechanisms and instruments (literature, textbooks, visual arts, songs, cinema) devised to shape children's thought according to political idelogies. Ultimately, the conference will attempt to underline continuities and discontinuities between Twentieth-century dictatorships across Western and Eastern Europe, South America and beyond, in relation to their commitment to children’s education and leisure. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee (Graduate Space, 4th Floor, Humanities) 10.30-10.40 Opening remarks (H545, 5th Floor, Humanities) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.40-11.30 Dr Nick Baron (University of Nottingham) Nurturing the Nation: Child Displacement and the State in the Twentieth Century _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.30-11.45 Coffee break (Graduate Space) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.45-13.00 Session 1. Exerting Control through Images. Chair: Dr. Jennifer Burns Beatrice Sica (UCL) The Boot and the Saddle: Italian Children and the Image of Mussolini on a Horse Sean Eedy (Carleton University) Power, the Eigen-Sinn, and the Construction of Space in East German Comics Donatella Germanese (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science) Fascist “Talking Blackboards”: Italian Educational Film and Radio Broadcast under Fascism and beyond _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 13.00-14.00 Lunch (Graduate Space) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 14.00-15.15 Session 2. Shaping Youth through Literature. Chair: Dr Chantal Wright Lan Ma (University of Glasgow) The Last Neverland for Chinese Young Readers and Writers: the Changes of Fantasy and Science Fiction in China and their Implicature of the Reality Shabnam Sadaat (University of Manchester) Children’s and Adolescents’ Literature in Post-revolutionary Iran: a Structurationist Approach Zsofia Gombar (University of Lisbon. Centre for English Studies) Censored Knowledge: Anglophone Literatures in Portuguese and Hungarian Textbooks _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.15-15.30 Coffee break (Graduate Space) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.30-16.45 Session 3. Authority, Memory and Education. Chair: Dr Joachim Haeberlen Dorothy Mas (Royal Holloway) Making Soldiers: War Letters (Feldpost) as an Instrument of Self-education in Nazi Elite Schools, 1939-1945 Beate Müller (University of Newcastle) ‘The Concentration Camps and the Persecution of the Jews Were Wrong': How Nuremberg's School Children Remembered Nazi Antisemitism in 1946 Marta Pozzolo (University of Reading) Libera nos a malo, Pomo Pero and Fiori Italiani: a Journey through Luigi Meneghello’s Childhood and Youth under Fascism _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 16.45-17.00 Coffee break (Graduate Space) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 17.00-17.50 Prof. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick) Evading Control: Popular Culture and Coping Strategies in Narratives of Childhood Trauma from Spain and Argentina _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 18.00-18.30 Wine reception (Graduate Space)